DOE. Eliminate, Abolish, Close, Defund, Bury, Decimate, Cancel, End, Forget, Fire,...have I missed any?
They don’t even accredit colleges - voluntary associations (created in Victorian times) still do that! The DOE was a big gift to the NEA from Carter: one that keeps on giving.
I about fell off the couch laughing at his comments about the Dept of ED.
Tea party candidates are extremist wacko wanting to abolish the Dept of ED when we are 27th in civilized countries in education.
That dumbass doesn't understand or know the Dept of Ed is probably the # 1 reason we are 27th.
The question is more like “why keep it running?” DoE has never demonstrated any value and gets an F on its report card by the American people.
The DOE is unconstitutional, but then so is Obama’s whole presidency, and very few people seem to care about that.
Our entire government depends on people not noticing that the Emperor has no cloths on.
Education is a matter for the states- however they wish to handle it. The federal government has no business there. The Weimar Republic was a federal state, in some respects like their own. One of the first things the Nazis did was to defederalize it, and one of the first features of their centralized state was a centralized education system. Federalism was and is a bulwark against tyranny.
“The most effectual means of preventing [the perversion of power into tyranny are] to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, that possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes.”- Thomas Jefferson